Sermon Quotes

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It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher. — George Whitefield
I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.' — Michael Eric Dyson
I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon. — Philip Pullman
Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way. — Edgar Guest
We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of… — Joan Didion
A good example is the best sermon. — Benjamin Franklin
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home — George MacDonald
A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own… — Garrison Keillor
The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to go… — Oswald Chambers
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is. — Stanley Hauerwas
She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was… — E. M. Forster
Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives… — Thomas Merton
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated… — John Donne
For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, the demand that… — Kurt Vonnegut
Calpurnia evidently remembered a rainy Sunday when we were both fatherless and teacherless. Let to its own devices, the class tied Eunice Ann Simpson to… — Harper Lee
People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing… — W. Somerset Maugham
An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse --… — Sam Harris
Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and… — Philip Yancey

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